Hitachi Travelstar 5K500.B

Hitachi Travelstar 5K500.B was a hard drive product family by Hitachi. It is Hitachi's second 500 GB hard drive family, and the first to do so in the conventional 9.5 mm z-height (the earlier 5K500 had to push the z-height to 12.5 mm in order to fit 500 GB).

Products

160 GB/platter models

160 GB models use 160 GB platters, the only models in the 5K500.B family to do so.

• Hitachi HTS545016B9A300

250 GB/platter models

• Hitachi HTS545012B9A300
• Hitachi HTS545025B9A300
• Hitachi HTS545032B9A300
• Hitachi HTS545040B9A300
• Hitachi HTS545050B9A300

Trivia

• All members of the 5K500.B family are codenamed Panther-B.

Gallery

• Top-down view of a HTS545050B9A300.
  Top-down view of a HTS545050B9A300.